Walter Williams: We are the idiots

5:41 PM,
May 22, 2013

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Walter Williams

Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (Setp. 5, 2012), wrote that her 1962 book "Silent Spring" led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was responsible for the loss of "tens of millions of human lives - mostly children in poor, tropical countries - that have been traded for the possibility of slightly improved fertility in raptors (birds). This remains one of the monumental human tragedies of the last century."